Animal Science: A productive degree

¿What is Animal Science?

Animal husbandry is the science of taking care of domestic animals that are used primarily as food or product sources.

Is the science of breeding, feeding and care of domestic animals, includes housing and nutrition

The branch of science, which deals with the study of various breeds of domesticated animals and their management for obtaining better products and services fromthem is termed animal husbandry (the term husbandry comes from ‘husband’ which means one who takes care).

Animals that produce different products

• Milk giving (milch) animals: Cows, buffaloes and goats who give us milk.
• Meat and egg giving animals: Pigs, cattle, goat, sheep, fowls and duckswhich are the main source of meat. From hens and ducks we get eggs.
• Working (draught) animals: Bullocks, buffaloes, camels and horses aredraught animals used for doing work in the field and for transportation ofgoods and human beings.

Mules are also used especially by the army to takethings from one place to another in the hilly areas.

We also get horns, feathers and leather from some of these animals which canbe used for making various things. Their urine and droppings help to make thesoil fertile by acting as manure.

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

• Provides food to the population
  
• Study domestic animals (dogs, cats, cows, pigs, poultry, sheeps, goats, rabbits and horses)
• Produces drug
  
• Stablish relationship with another sciences such as: animal phisiology, reproduction, nutrition, genetic and health


• Produce products such as: milk, eggs, fish, honey, blood, dressed (wool)


• Source raw materia
• Generate animals with productive and reproductive potential using techniques such: Artificial Insemination, Invitro fertilization, embryo transfer, selection, system crosses, mating, use of productive and reproductive records


• Studied physiological phenomena in the animals



• Stablish relationship to agricultural to feed animals


• Optimizes the use os sources: water and soil


• Satisfy needs basic nutritional

• Integrates to the family into community work

Disadvantages

• Employee needs personal experience
• Using technology and techniques
• Woker must have Knowledge about the general management of animal
• Required infrastructure